Word: hell-bent
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...South to dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence, with the provincial picture-esqueness of Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story for 1924, which also has a Southern theme. "The Secret...
...prize works have revealed. Just as Gray's introduction of nature into English poetry was the prelude to countless rhapsodies on nature by succeeding poets, just as Montesquieu's "Letters Persanes" prefaced many a book both in France and elsewhere in letter form, so it is probable that "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven" and "The Secret at the Crossroads" will open to American literature a new field a field rich in possibilities, and one as yet only touched...
...built a National organization, somehow supplied it with funds and courage. A great part of the country never appreciated his spirit. The North-East, especially, looked upon him as another ambitious man, one with displeasing associations, one whose ingenious scheming had made him something to be reckoned with. The hell-bent determination which carried his organization through the crisis when it was disclosed that he was a Doheny lawyer, highly-paid-the spirit which succeeded in weathering that storm-was indeed something to be reckoned with...
...HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN-A naturalistic study of Kentucky mountaineers in religious-complex throes. (Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize...
...HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN? Fairly true and somewhat unusual picture of the Kentucky mountains in the throes of a revivalist complex...